Carbon Footprints

US President -elect Barack Obama gave the first of his weekly addresses to the nation and declared ‘that his administration would mark a “new chapter in American leadership on climate change.”‘
“Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change,” he said. “Many of you are working to confront [...]

There’s an editorial in the LA Times called “Schwarzenegger and global warming” which is mostly a fluff piece about Arnie’s green-hero status being eclipsed by President Obama, but down the bottom, the author says,
Indonesiawill[sic] announce at the governors’ summit that it wishes to join California’s carbon-trading program. That could mean polluters in California would be [...]

David Gallo, one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of manned submersibles and robots to map the ocean world with unprecedented clarity and detail, gives an astounding talk at TED called Underwater astonishments. It’s important, with all of this talk of the economics of climate change, to remind ourselves of the total [...]

Melbourne’s The Age is reporting Fears mount as Arctic melt prompts historic methane rise.
A global study in Geophysical Research Letters found the first increase in methane levels this century — by about 28 million tonnes since mid-2006 — was in part due to release of gas in and near the Arctic.
CSIRO senior climate scientist Paul [...]

Larry Brilliant, CEO of Google.Org, said a lot of good stuff this week, but perhaps the most profound thing he said was “Today is a good day to choose to save the world”.
“Global warming is something that happens to all of us. We are in this together. It’s critically important for corporations to step up.”
Brilliant [...]

The UK’s The Guardian is reporting Obama’s cruise to the White House puts the wind back in green sails.
The election of Barack Obama has put the wind back into the sails of the renewable energy sector, where investor confidence had been badly punctured by the credit crisis. Clean technology and green energy stocks have soared [...]

In the UK The Independent is reporting Climate change at the poles IS man-made
Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
It is the first [...]